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Maya Kowalski, daughter of Registered Nurse Beata Kowalski, was 9 years old in 2015 and suffering debilitating pain.  She was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (“CRPS”), resulting in symptoms such as stiffness, spasms, and limited mobility. Her mother was able to find a doctor who was able to properly diagnose her, and he prescribed ketamine treatments to block the […]

  I feel like I sound like a broken record continually harping on how many registered nurses are expected to leave their careers and how the path will affect mandatory state safe staffing.  Along with previous research, another survey on this subject has been published by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.  In it, 335,000 registered nurses and […]

  The main reason, or maybe the only reason hospitals exist is for nursing care.  As an intricate tapestry of healthcare, nurses are the threads that bind all of health care together.  They are compassionate caregivers and tireless advocates.  Yes, they are unsung heroes who day and night work diligently to ensure every patient’s well-being. Yet what if one day, […]

  As nurses, the well-being of our patients depends on our precision and accuracy.  However, when it comes to running our own business, the pursuit of perfection can be a double-edged sword. First, is there really such a thing as perfection or are you setting yourself up for an unrealistic expectation?  Remember when we first became nurses and hit the […]

  Were you aware that the CEO of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was paid $7,700,000.00 in 2021?  And got a bonus of $5,600,000.00 to boot?  That’s more than the hospital had provided in all charity offerings over the previous three years! That package averaged to over a quarter million ($256,000.00) a week; almost $6,400.00 an hour! When I first heard […]

At the University of Wisconsin, the nurses are unionized. Unfortunately, a year ago Governor Tony Evers stepped in to negotiate a deal to avert a strike at the UW Health hospital in Madison. The union for the nurses wants UW Health to provide greater pay transparency and to remove salary caps. One of Wisconsin’s US Senators will be speaking to […]

  Lex Hinkley, RN, BSN, a traveling nurse posted a video on TikTok that has gone viral. I don’t know her though we both live in San Diego. Regardless, she is very upset and concerned about the safety of our patients. Patients are being discharged from health care facilities with no place to go. The nurse talked about how these […]

  I was so excited to see that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued minimum staffing standards for long-term care facilities.  This proposed rule seeks to establish comprehensive nursing staffing requirements.  I love this initiative because residents in nursing homes are not always given the best care due to short staffing.  Although there are requirements that facilities […]

  The Biden Administration announced that it is awarding more than $100,000,000.00 to train more nurses in growing the nursing workforce. However, will adding more nurses solve the problems in nursing where nurses are leaving in droves? I don’t think so.  The problem is the context of nursing is practice and how nurses don’t feel valued and appreciated by administrations.  […]

It has been said that in business, you have to kiss a lot of frogs to get to a potential buyer.  The more frogs that say no, the closer you are to “yes”. Unfortunately, we as nurses are programmed that if someone says “no” to us, we tend to take it personally.  But “no” just means “not now”.  “No” is […]